Projectile.



No. 724,326. PATENTBD MAR. 31, 1903. W. PEPPERLING.

PROJEGTILE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 22, 1903.

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WILLIAM PEPPERLl'hlGr, OF TWO HARBORS, MINNESOTA.

ssoJEcTiLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 724,326, dated March 31, 1903.

Application filed January 22,1903. Serial No. 140,171. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: they are flush, as shown in Fig. 1. The rods' Beit known that I,WILLIAMPEPPERLING,a are preferably made of spring material; citizen of the United States, and a resident of but in any event it is essential that they shall Two Harbors,in the county of Lakeand State be adapted to be readily expanded, so as to 5 of Minnesota, have made certain new and use project from the body of the shell. The front ful Improvementsin Projectiles, of which the end of the chambered portion of the shell 2 following is a'specification. is attached to the bullet]. in a well-known My invention is an improvement in that manner by crimping it into a groove in the. general class of projectiles which are prosame. The groove is not, however, made of lo vided with one or more devices adapted to such'depth nor is the crimp or flange of the expand or project laterally upon striking an shell so formed as to greatly hinder the backj ward movement of the bullet upon striking The chief distinguishing feature of my in-' an object. Small air-outlets 4 are provided vention is the arrangement of parts whereby in the sides of the chamber 4 at the rear end 15 the bulletor projectile proper is adapted to of'the same.

so act upon movable devices in rear of it as When the projectile is discharged and to cause them to project laterally from the strikes an object, the ball or bullet 1 is forced shell, and thus enlarge the hole which is norback, the air in the chamber behind it being mally made by the projectile in entering the compressed thereby owing to the compara- 20 body of an animal or in passing through any tively slow escape provided by the outlets 4? soft tissue or material. and the rods 5 being also projected laterally The details of construction, arrangement, from the shell 2, as shown in Fig. 5. In other and operation of parts are as hereinafter dewords, the four small spring-rods are forced scribed, reference being had to accompanyout beyond the surface of the projectile, so

25 ing drawings, in which as to practically enlarge its lateral dimen- Figure l is a longitudinal section of one sions, and thus-to tear and enlarge the openv form of my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudiing or wound which would normally be made nal section of the shell or base portion of the by the projectile. The destructive efiect of 8 projectile. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on a projectile of small size provided with my 0 the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 isa perspective expansible attachment is obvious. I

view of the bullet or projectile proper with In the modified form of my invention illusthe expanding attachment. Fig. 5 is a lontrated in Fig. 6 in place ofa' series of sepagitudinal section of the projectile, showing rate spring-rods, such as shown in Fig. 4, I the position of parts when the same strikes employ a single stem 6, whose rear end is 35 an object. Fig. 6is a longitudinal section of formed into a series of curvedfbranches 6 a modified form of projectile. The front end of the stem 6 is threaded and I willfirst describe the invention as shown screws into an elongated threaded aperture .in Figs. 1 to 5. 1 indicates a conical bullet in the ball or bullet 1*. This construction or projectile proper, and 2 the base or shell adapts the stem 6 to be screwed into the ball 40 connected with the same. The said shell is 1* to a greater or less length, so that the provided in its front portion with an airspring brauches, 6 may be adjusted- 5. 6., chamber 4' directly in rear-of the bullet 1, withdrawn-more or'less from the side of the and the solid body or rear portion of the shell shell, instead of being flush therewith, as 95. is provided with a series of curved passages 3, shown. In other words, the screw attach- 5 adapted to receive a series'of. wires or rods 5, ment permits the expansible device to be adwhich are firmly connected with the bullet 1. j listed so as to reduce or increase its projec- The material of which the latter is composed tion from the shell, as may be required. Thus may becast upon the rods'5f'cr the'attachment' the projectile'may be adapted for use in shoot- :00 maybe made in anyoth-er-preferred manner. ing game of difierent kinds. The base'por- 50 The rods 5 lie inco'ntact in the greater portion 2 of the projectile may be incasedbya tion of their length, their' rear ends extendcopper shell2", as usual in'the construction ing out to theiside of the shell 2 with which of various forms of projectiles.

Having thus described my in venuon what I claim as new, and desire to seen re by Letters Patent, is-

1. An improved projectile of the class specified, comprising a ball or projectile proper, a shell or base portion having an air-chamber in rear of the ball, and a device arranged slidably in the base and projected therefromwhen. the projectilestrikes an object, and slides back into said base, substantially asshown and described.

2. The improved projectile comprising a ball or projectile proper, a shell or baseportion having an air-chamber 'in rear of the same into which the ball is adapted to slide, and rods attached to the ball,.and arranged in laterally-curved passages in the base, from which they are extended when the ball is forced back into the aforesaid chamber, substantially as shown and described.

- 3. In a projectile of the class described, the combination, with a base portion, having a chamber in its front end and one or more curved passages extending rearward therefrom and opening at the side, of a ball-held in .thefront end pf the chamber, and one or more rods attached thereto and extending through the said passages, whereby, when the projectile strikes an object, the ball is forced backward and the rods are projected laterally, substantially as shown and described.

4.1 111 a projectile of the class described, the combination, with a base or other portion, of a ball, and a device attached thereto and projected rearward, the ball being so connected with the base that it slides backward npon striking an object, and the device bein g thereby forced outward laterally from the base, substantially as shown and described.

5. In a projectile of the class described, the combination, with a base or shell portion, of a ball which is slidably connected therewith, and a series of rods which are permanently attached to the ball and are curved laterally at their rear ends, so that, when the projectile strikes an object, they are projected laterally from the base, substantially as shown and described.

WILLIAM PEPPERLING.

Witnesses:

C. A. YERNBERG, DENNIS DEVAN. 

